Users registering on my site

  • In preparing for a BuddyPress installation, I checked the option that “Anyone can Register,” so we could begin accepting members to a new community. Not five minutes later, two unrecognized names became subscribers.

    How did this happen? I realize that once I made that change in General Settings, I created the means to add new users, but I didn’t actually add any visible forms at the website for people to register. Were these just spam bots? Is there a generic URL for websites that allow new members?

    If these were humans that joined, where did they go in order to do it?

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  • I realize that once I made that change in General Settings, I created the means to add new users, but I didn’t actually add any visible forms at the website for people to register. Were these just spam bots? Is there a generic URL for websites that allow new members?

    These sound like sploggers to me. Spam bots, as you said.

    Check out this article on WPMU’s site… it has a couple of good options. Some are outdated, but many are not. https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/buddypress-spam/

    I use WangGaurd, personally. The name is weird. But it does a very good job. I’ve heard good things about AntiSplog as well.

    Best,
    Evan

    Thread Starter rickaltman

    (@rickaltman)

    Thank you, Evan! Combating sploggers at the front door is the way I would like to go here, and I would be grateful to hear from others who have used the various tools discussed in the link above. Is there a consensus favorite? Some better in certain situations than others?

    Thread Starter rickaltman

    (@rickaltman)

    I have surveyed several of the possible plugins, but there is still a missing link for me. To quote one the BuddyPress Humanity plugin: “This plugin adds a customizable security question to the sign up form.”

    I haven’t yet created a signup form. I have no idea how the splog bots are signing up. I can install this plugin, but I don’t know how to implement it, because a signup form doesn’t yet exist.

    Help…?

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